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Olivia Drusin is a New York-based painter whose works critically engage with the psychological dimensions of public and private spaces through a perceptual lens. Her work meticulously dissects the banalities of everyday life, exposing the latent disquietude that permeates seemingly mundane encounters. Drusin's paintings traverse the intersection of the ordinary and the uncanny, manifesting as stark, reductive representations of thresholds and obscured moments that invite a deeper contemplation of the intersections between sight, space, and psychological engagement.


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b. 1994 New York, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2024 | MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
2016 | BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 | DARK HUMORISM, SARDINE, Brooklyn, NY
2016 | Thesis, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 |  Entanglements, curated by Thais Bignardi, Mama Projects, New York, NY
             Inside Out / Outside In, Martha’s, Austin, TX 
             Landscapes of Fear, International Waters, Brooklyn, NY
2024 | Currents, curated by Aidan Chisholm and Farren Yuan, SK Gallery, New York, NY
            MFA THESIS, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2023 | All Our Puny Sorrows, Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY
            High-Stakes, curated by Lisa Boudet, Paris, France
            in medias res, curated by Aidan Chisholm and Farren Yuan, theBLANC, New York, NY
            Private Viewing, organized by Alyssa Davis, Blade Study and Grove, New York, NY
            MFA First Year Show, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
            Local Objects, International Objects, Brooklyn, NY
            Too Long at the Fair, curated by Victoria Horrocks, Galleri Golsa, Oslo, Norway
2022 | Painting As Is II, curated by Heidi Hahn and Tim Wilson, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
            The Hidden Sublime, Selenas Mountain, Queens, NY
2021 | The Dead Don’t Die, curated by Shawn Powell, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2017 |  Post-Magic Symbiosis, curated by Lacey Fekishazy, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY
            Laurel, curated by Laurence Dujardyn, Tatiana Kronberg, Rosie Motley, Brooklyn, NY
2016 | The Black Monochrome, Kustera Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2015 | Six Flags Part 2, 41 Cooper Square Gallery, New York, NY
             A Synthetic Wound, curated by Isabel Legate, 41 Cooper Square Gallery, New York, NY

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

2024 | Dean’s Travel Grant, Columbia University, New York, NY
2023 | Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2022 | Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2016 | The Eleanor Gay Lee Gallery Foundation Scholar Award, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
2012 - 2016 | Full Tuition Scholarship, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY